What is the film A Beautiful Mind about.

[tcsenter]

Its about perpetuating the lie that anti-psychotropic drugs cure schizophrenia.

There is no cure for schizophrenia and no pharmaceutical company claims to be able to cure schizophrenia.

However, anti-psychotics (generally not called anti-psychotropics) have revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia.

Is that what you meant?

 

[Brutuskend]

It's a good movie.

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John Nash

 

[B00ne]

I didnt even realize it was Jennifer Conelly in there - what happened to her boobs and full lips?

 

It was the same plot as The Hulk. Jennifer Conelly falls in loves with a brillant scientist, the sweetest guy on Earth. Once in a while he goes a little goofy and thinks the military is after him.

Gotta thank Ebert for that one 🙂

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Originally posted by: dwell
It was the same plot as The Hulk. Jennifer Conelly falls in loves with a brillant scientist, the sweetest guy on Earth. Once in a while he goes a little goofy and thinks the military is after him.

Gotta thank Ebert for that one 🙂

Heh, he's got a point.

I enjoyed the movie, my GF drug me to it when it was in the theaters becuase she was in an abnormal psyc class and got extra credit for seeing it (wierd teacher). I think i enjoyed it more than her in the end since she hates math.

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I had no idea who nash was nor did i know he was actualy real, so the whole time i kept waiting to find out that it wasn't imagined and that the CIA had covered it up. Too bad.

 

[brunswickite]

its a movie about how regular people show how geniuses think

 

[Moonbeam]

I seen a few minutes of the film where he talked about how to win. I'm not so much asking about the film but the theory. I want to read what Orsorum, linked, I think, but the links don't seem to lead anywhere for me.

 

[Descartes]

You all should read the book, it portrays Nash in a different light. The movie shows Nash as arrogant although mostly affable; however, the book shows him mostly as an arrogant ass 🙂

I loved the movie, and I think Russell Crowe did a fantastic job.

 

[Orsorum]

Moonbeam, sorry about that. I forgot that JSTOR is limited to those on college campuses (and that I'm using college ethernet, 😛). Here is a copy of his two most influential papers (the original, and one he wrote a few years later).

The Bargaining Problem

Two-Person Cooperative Games

Both files are in PDF format.

 

[Kyteland]

There was a scene where he was challenged to a game of Go and he got all mad when he lost because he got to play first and he thought he had played a perfect game. That's game theory for ya. 😉

 

[Moonbeam]

I get it kyte, he forgot to say 'Mother may I'.

Orsorum, thanks I'll have a look.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Kyteland
There was a scene where he was challenged to a game of Go and he got all mad when he lost because he got to play first and he thought he had played a perfect game. That's game theory for ya. 😉

In the book, it talks about math problems he'd give to someone and then admonish them for not coming up solutions as "perfect" as his.

 

[styelers]

Great movie.